Sentences with phrase «higher than the computer»

This was 12 percent higher than the computer simulation results.

Not exact matches

«One of the things that we thought through planning this is that the percentage of mobile users would be definitely higher than it typically would be because a lot of people have the game on and would just bring [websites] up on their phone rather than jump onto a computer and look,» McElrath says.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Though less visible than manufactured goods and natural resources, our new research shows that Canadian companies are increasingly selling their engineering, computer, insurance, and other high - value services in global markets.

Sullivan uses only two computer - based services — automatic payroll and a «sweep» account that invests excess funds in an interest - bearing account at the end of each business day — and those services are better described as mid-tech than high - tech.

And really form - fitting the software to your business needs may require a higher level of understanding of computers than we're recommending for notices.

In this way, it is possible for an on - board computer to get a car closer to the one in front at higher speeds than would be considered safe under human control.

Furthermore, 82 percent said that they access the Internet with laptop computers and 47 percent with tablets (up from 26 percent in 2012), both significantly higher than older generations.

High income households are already computer equipped — better than 97 % of households in the top income quintile have a computer and virtually all of them are internet connected.

Equipment investment also rose in the quarter, underpinned by strong spending on computer equipment, to be 3.8 per cent higher than a year ago.

It makes sense for the U.S. to use its scarce natural and human resources to manufacture airplanes, high - end computer chips and advanced software — products that command better prices than do less complex things like shoes or textiles.

Plants that sell frozen beef to the National School Lunch Program violated food safety rules at rates higher than the industry as a whole, according to the Tribune's computer analysis of Agriculture Department data.

«Previously, there wasn't enough computer power to do these kinds of time - accurate simulations in large computational domains, but with the power of high - performance computing [HPC] and Titan, we are achieving more than was previously thought possible.»

Meanwhile, a dramatic mid-decade drop - off in jobs in industry for computer science Ph.D. s has completely reversed itself; despite the strong growth in academia, today a higher percentage of Ph.D. s are employed in industry than was the case during the industry's previous peak during 1996 — 7.

Articles which the participants believed to have been written by journalists were consistently given higher marks for readability, credibility and journalistic expertise than those that were flagged as computer - generated — even in cases where the real «author» was in fact a computer.

Graduate enrollment in computer sciences, a field of special concern to many industrial leaders, rose for the fifth straight year, standing almost 20 % higher than in 1990 and some 130 % greater than in 1980.

In the current study, published this week in PLOS ONE, a computer accurately predicted the genre of fiction works about 50 % of the time, much higher than the 17 % expected from random guessing.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

The pairing of code and computer gave Robertson and Schneider the tools needed to produce high - fidelity simulations of gas clouds measuring more than 15 light years in diameter.

They also found that men scored higher than women, and people did better if they had more experience playing computer games.

From computer models, he found that counter-rotating vertical turbines could be arranged in such a way that a vertical wind farm has a higher power output per unit of area than a horizontal farm, upward of 10 times the energy density.

The outermost area, or box, would be built like a computer - chip clean room with air at a slightly higher pressure than the outside atmospheric pressure.

These computer simulations of a spiral galaxy show that the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would provide sharper images of distant objects than the existing Hubble telescope (left).

At full speed, even the high - end Dell Quad - core computers in Boahen's lab can not simulate more than one of Neurogrid's silicon neurons at a time — and the complete chip contains 65,536 neurons.

He has seen bounties as high as $ 500,000 offered for software to break it — enough to attract people with the skills to the task and five times more than the Loebner Grand Prize offers to the programmer who designs a computer that can truly pass the Turing test.

These checks can be done very efficiently on modern high - performance computers, and TriCheck's speed has allowed it to explore larger and more complex designs than prior work.

The first review period for the K - 12 Computer Science (CS) framework - developed by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Association for Computing Machinery, along with more than 100 advisors within the computing community - begins February 3 with the release of the high school (grades 9 - 12) layer of concepts and...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance.

More than 100 years later, we now enjoy and have become almost completely dependent on high - performing computers, microwave ovens, and many other wireless technologies.

For instance, a farmer, who has been working on a farm during his whole period of growing up and worked with his hands, using his entire body all the time, has much higher testosterone levels than a man grown in a city environment, that spends most of his time at the computer, for instance.

«Our high quality matchmaking continues to be undertaken by our skilled, friendly team rather than by computers.»

When we think back to what it was like playing a game at release, our memories tend to be in higher resolution than our old computer screens.

The PCs, servers, workstations, monitors and tablets are a far higher specification than you would find in your standard computer shop and will last substantially longer.»

• No less than a whole new curriculum was envisioned for high schools, one that would be stringent across the board, but particularly so in areas critical to the national interest - mathematics, science, foreign languages, and computer science.

He started a programming club at our high school, and he's pursuing a computer degree «to do nothing short than change the world for the better.»

As examples, he points to Rocketship, a group of schools in California serving low - income students that credits their high achievement in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 perchigh achievement in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percHigh School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percent.

The risk of injury is higher for people involved in technology - based tasks because we tend to move less, for example, when staring at a fixed - height computer monitor with hands resting on a keyboard than when using pen and paper.

To make the online program accessible to a wider range of applicants than its in - person counterpart, Georgia Tech's admissions website describes as «preferred qualifications» having a BA in computer science or a related field with an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher.

A 2001 U.S. Department of Education report claimed that students in poverty are 15 percent less likely to have access to computers at school than students in the highest income brackets.

Dr. B. Lynn Ware, president & CEO of Integral Talent Systems, reported in Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World - class Work Force that retention and absorption levels through gamification are ten times higher than through traditional learning techniques or computer - based learning.The Boy and Girl Scouts of America have effectively used gamification techniques for years.

Struggling readers had higher reading scores using computer - assisted technology than compared to struggling readers who did not have the same technology access.

We did find some suggestive evidence that permitting computers is more detrimental to male students than to female students and to students with relatively high entrance - exam scores.

The cost of effective peer tutoring is higher than alternatives, such as computer - assisted instruction or smaller class sizes or longer school days, because of the needs for adult personnel to coordinate, train, and monitor the student tutors.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

There is one computer for every two children, a much higher PC accessibility rate than the European Union's mandate of five to fifteen pupils per PC.

Today, most of this programming takesplace in what I refer to as higher - level programminglanguages, consisting of menus and choicesrather than the more flexible computer code.Of course, many people will be content withthis level of programming (which still managesto baffle many «literate» adults).

Soon after my high - school computer lab was hooked up to the Internet, I realized that my students suddenly had more power to do more damage to more people than any teenagers in history.

The highest use of tablet computers was within academy schools - much greater than in independent schools or other types of state schools.

Our high school has three business labs (PCs), an English writing lab (PCs), a mathematics lab (PCs), a Mac lab for programming and art, a technology lab (PCs and Macs), and more than 70 computers (Macs and PCs) in the library.

Though the researchers initially found more than 1600 studies that looked at how students learned from computer responses to their answers, they determined that only 40 of these studies were high quality ones that directly compared different types of feedback to see which were most effective.